GAVI Fact sheets

Maintaining a healthy vaccine market is at the core of the GAVI Alliance mission and business model. As a result, GAVI has a strategic goal to shape markets to make sure a sufficient supply of high-quality and appropriate vaccines is available to developing countries at low and sustainable prices.

Co-financing is a cornerstone of the GAVI Alliance’s commitment to building country ownership and ensuring the sustainability of vaccine funding. It is a driving principle in the funding of vaccines and is a core element of GAVI’s financing goal in the 2011-2015 strategy.

GAVI’s mission – to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing access to immunisation in poor countries – is underpinned by the basic tenet of equity. Access to the benefits of vaccines should not depend on where in the world a child is born.

Civil society organisations (CSOs) have a long history of involvement in public health and have proven to be particularly successful in reaching marginalised populations and people in remote areas, especially through community mobilisation. [French]

GAVI launched the AVI initiative in January 2009 to facilitate the rapid and large-scale introduction of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines in GAVI-eligible countries and to establish a platform for future introduction of other new vaccines. [French]